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Here you can specify any command lines necessary to finalize a contour.
Tab page Hatch
G-Code interface
Hatches are vectors that fill the material area inside the borders of a contour.
These vectors are called hatch segments and they are combined in hatch blocks. Each contour
can contain several hatch blocks depending on the contour geometry.
The hatch style depends on the parameters used during the hatch calculation. The hatch
parameters can be accessed and defined via the dialog Define machine on the tab page Hatches.
HINT: If the hatch option "connected" is set, the segments of a hatch block are drawn in a
continuous course. Otherwise a rapid traverse command line is inserted to move from the end
point of a hatch segment to the start point of the next one.
Hatch block start:
Here you can specify any command lines necessary to start a new hatch block.
HINT: Depending on the NC control and the NC device you could for example tell the control to
change the tool, the material or anything else that is needed.
Hatch segment:
Here you can specify the command line for a single hatch line segment. It simply tells the device
control how to move from the start coordinates of the actual segment to the start coordinates of
the next segment by using G01 and macros as placeholders for the coordinates ([NEXT_X],
[NEXT_Y], ..).
You should also consider to specify a feed rate value here using the macro [FEED_HATCH] or
[FEED_HATCH_OPT].
HINT: In addition to the movement itself you can specify additional parameters for the line
segments, e.g. a spindle speed (S-command).
Example:
Profile: N[CL_NR] G01 [xNEXT_X] [yNEXT_Y] [FEED_HATCH_OPT] S1
N278 G01 x25.15 y10.0 F600 S1
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